HIV replicates slower in cells from individuals previously vaccinated against smallpox than in cells from unvaccinated subjects, suggesting a potential link between the end of smallpox vaccination programs and the exponential spread of HIV.

A comparison study of mouse macrophages derived from spleen, bone marrow and peritoneum demonstrates their distinct characteristics which may be relevant to their respective roles in the immune response.

How to make sense of complex immunological datasets is clarified by a guide to classical statistical techniques and more recent advanced approaches, which highlights how to best apply them to answer particular scientific questions.

The CED database is dedicated to conformational epitopes, formed when dispersed sequences are brought together through structural conformation, and contains entries manually curated from the literature, antigen and antibody data, and a visualization tool.